Articles by Cally Guerin

Now that you have started to articulate a sense of yourself as a researcher, where do you want to take that next? What effect do you want your research to have in the world? What do you want do with your knowledge and who will benefit from your research?...

Education is widely regarded as a transformative force in our lives: part of our identity includes what we know about the world. It makes sense then, as we learn more, our view of the world and ourselves changes. Thesis acknowledgements offer us some interesting glimpses into the emerging identities...

As we saw yesterday, performing the actions of a researcher is key to exhibiting the behaviours that help others see this emerging identity. Central to how you present yourself as a researcher is the persona you adopt in your writing, which includes positioning yourself in relation to the topic...

Now that you’ve thought about where you do your research, and identified some symbols that represent yourself as a researcher, it’s time to turn to the behaviours that demonstrate your researcher self. Academic and researcher identities are exhibited in how we speak, read, write, behave, and think about the...

Introduction This mini-course focuses on who we are as researchers: How do we see our role in the world? What is important to us in our work? Where do we perform this new professional self? And what helps us understand the personal transformation that occurs during a research degree?...